... wait a minute, it's rather gloomy and cold out, with rain-slicked streets, there's a sucky cat wedged between me and the computer still crying for his wet cat food, and dog that hasn't been walked properly in three days.  

Right.  At least I managed to clean the house yesterday morning and do a load of laundry.  Sort of.

Today is catch-up day.  I have pages of journaling to do, a ridiculously large amount of newsreader feeds and podcasts and message-list emails to get through, a roast chicken dinner, a box of hair dye with my name on it (and likely the first one to be pushed off until a later date), and the list goes on.

In writing news ... (insert ticker sound effects here) ... I haven't done any!  Not in Toronto, not since we've been back.  But I have done some writing-related things: I've signed up for NaNoWriMo and made a few posts on the board, I've added a new stand-alone page (look right, you'll see it there) about fiction writing programs as I seem to get a lot of hits from Liquid Story Binder, and today I'll be testing out the printing capabilities of Scrivener by making a hard copy of everything I've written to date for Spirit Cat.  

And really, I should get to it.

Zotero:
~Adding items into a collection and organizing sources
~Creating a bibliography via Word or GoogleDocs
~Managing your collection through tags
~troubleshooting
~Endnote file transfer (in litigation)

Scrivener (for Mac):
~intro vid
~other Mac resources:DEVONthink
~similar PC software

Project Management:
~Hiveminder/GCal
~Remember the Milk (Also works with GCal)

UPDATE:
Some resources that were suggested during the workshop:

• iGoogle, as a portal to all of the diverse Google applications including GoogleBook, GoogleScholar, GooglePatent, etc

• Mind Mapping software (H/T Stephen Franklin), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mind_mapping_software, lists as external refs, Innovation Tools: Independent site dedicated to introducing accelerated learning tools. It includes a survey of Mind Mapping software use. Mind-mapping.org, independent site claiming to have every piece of mind mapping software in its list of over 178 packages. It also includes on-line mind mapping services, software for concept mapping and outlining and a historical record of past software in these categories.

• ArtStor and Flickr for image searches

• UCI resources such as WorldCat (through UCI library's portal) and webfiles

Note: workshop hosted by Humanitech, which is also a sponsor of the Making History Podcast

Discussion Facilitator: Jana Remy, Graduate Student, Department of History